Danny Trejo lives by one motto: «Let me help people today.»The 76-year-old actor and entrepreneur lives a life of service after years spent in prison and battling drug addiction.
Now after52 years of sobriety, Trejo is being honored with CRI-Help's inaugural Vanguard Award for his tireless work as a drug counselor.«You don't know what that means to me, that's unbelievable,» Trejo tells ET ahead of the non-profit's 50-year anniversary celebration on Friday. «I got clean in 1968.
I got out of the penitentiary in 1969. In 1970 they started the first rehab here in the valley…They had to close that so they started CRI-Help.»Since 1971, CRI-Help has helped more than 45,000 people overcome drug and alcohol dependency.
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